Civil Liberties and Human Rights

Every month human rights situations in 3 different countries are
highlighted. The site also contains: recent Amnesty International Publications, Amnesty
International Country Reports , and other document summaries.

"HRI is an international network of groups and individuals
involved in human rights and social justice work worldwide, a documentation centre, and a
publishing house. The database contains information on thousands of organizations
(including more than thousand organizations concerned with children's rights information),
more than 10,000 bibliographic abstracts of the literature since 1985, education programs
on human rights and much more."

"A collection of over ninety of the most important international
human rights instruments (treaties, declarations, and other materials) together with
authoritative citations. The instruments are organized by subject matter; also accessible
through a new WAIS search device which allows the user to locate documents by key words or
phrases. Where possible, each instrument is linked to the UN Treaty Data Base for
ratification information. A parallel French-language collection of the instruments is also
being added to the Library."

"A site that supports the global struggle for the freedom of working
men, women, and children. The site has no formal connection with any organization
but relies on the work of many organizations around the world for information,
insights, and inspiration."

HRW is dedicated to exposing violations of human rights and conducts
regular systematic investigations of human rights abuses in about seventy countries around
the world. It addresses the human rights practices of governments and of all ethnic and
religious persuasions.

"A moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of issues
relating to the general topic of privacy (both personal and collective) in the
"information age" of the 1990's and beyond. Topics include a wide range of
telecommunications, information/database collection and sharing, and related issues, as
pertains to the privacy concerns of individuals, groups, businesses, government, and
society at large. The manners in which both the legitimate and the controversial concerns
of business and government interact with privacy considerations are also topics for the
digest."